CPF Views on Education

Thank you to all CPF members that took the time to respond to our latest paper: "Britain's Skills Advantage: How can the Education System best enable every individual to fulfill their potential?"

Contributions were received from constituency discussion groups and individual respondents with backgrounding across engineering, manufacturing, healthcare, business leadership, education governance, academia and public service.

The clear consensus reached was that the UK's education system has struggled to adapt to varied aptitudes and learning styles. This has weakened technical pathways, exacerbated skills shortages in major trades, and left many students disengaged and ill prepared for adult life.

The core headline policy ideas emerging from the consultation included:

1. Earlier identification of student strengths

2. Embedding high quality careers education and employer engagement into early secondary school.

3. Establishing genuine parity of esteem between academic, technical and vocational routes.

4. Reforming assessment to recognize a wider range of abilities and learning styles.

5. Stabilizing education policy and strengthening long term teacher workforce planning

Your responses will now be shared with Saqib Bhatti MP, Shadow Minister for Education. Join us at our upcoming online event, where he will respond to the consultation and explore the next steps for delivering meaningful reform to Britain's education system.

Education Policy Paper - Summary of Responses.pdf

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